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San Diego places that have closed, with the source for each

98 places have come off the Hot Tip map because they closed or left their address, each with the page that says so. 32 have the date of closing on record, and 27 more have a dated write-up. The most recent: NOLA on 5th in Hillcrest, closed in September 2026.

Read on from the closures recorded against the live Hot Tip map. Listings start from OpenStreetMap and are corrected by hand.

  • 98closed, each with a source
  • 45places to eat
  • 23bars
  • 15coffee shops and bakeries
  • 14shops
  • 1barber or salon

Is it on this list?

With the date it closed, newest first 32

With a dated write-up, newest first 27

The date here is the day somebody wrote that the place had closed, so it shut then or before. Where the write-up says when, the note does too.

Closed, date not on record 39

How to read this

How do I know if a San Diego restaurant is still open?

If it is on this page, it is not: each of the 98 places here was taken off the Hot Tip map with a source, read on 5 October 2026. If it is not here, look for it on its neighborhood's list. A place on those lists was on the live map on the day the list was counted, and where the hours are on record they are printed beside it.

Where does this list come from?

From checking the map against the world. When a listing turns out to have closed, it comes off the map and is recorded here with the page that says so: the business's own site, a local news story, or a listing marked closed. 6,479 independent places are on the map, so this list is what has been found, not everything that has shut.

A date marked "by" a month is the month a listing was first seen marked closed, so the place shut then or earlier. "Written up" is the day a source said it had closed. The note under each name is the note the closure was recorded with. A place that has reopened, or that is here by mistake, comes off the day somebody says so: hello@hottip.club.

The ones that are still here could use the visit. Hot Tip picks one that is open right now.

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